IOU - Unable to empty the merchant field to set it to default value 'Request'

[lanitochka17]

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Action Performed:

1. Go to staging.new.expensify,com
2. Create a money request with custom merchant
3. Open IOU report
4. Click on the merchant
5. Empty the merchant
6. Save the merchant

Expected Result:

The merchant is defaulted to 'Request' when it is emptied

Actual Result:

The merchant is not defaulted to 'Request'. It is defauled to data that is set in Step 2
The behavior here is that it defaults to whatever data that is entered in the Merchant field when the IOU is created. But what if I need to delete the Merchant and change it back to default (Request), it does not allow me to set it back to 'Request'

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android / native
• Android / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: 1.3.59-0

Reproducible in staging?: Yes

Reproducible in production?: No

If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:

Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):

Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856

Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

Bug6182657_20230830_201332.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:

Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

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Triggered auto assignment to @puneetlath (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[mountiny]

@lanitochka17 This is not a bug, this is intended behaviour

1. The merchant cannot be empty
2. when you set the Merchant at first, that is the default merchant (Request is not default merchant for that particular expense anymore)
3. Resetting it will go to the initially inserted merchant

• you can just type Request if you want it to be Request

[lanitochka17]

@mountiny Thank you for the clarification